Chapter 29: Heavenly Mandate Elixir

The battlefield reeked of blood. Celestial Cultivators scattered in all directions, fleeing for their lives. What Celestial Dynasty? What honor and disgrace? Faced with death, none of it mattered. A small handful chose to stay. They feared word would reach the Celestial Dynasty, and once the higher-ups flew into a rage, anyone who fled in the middle of battle would be punished with extermination of nine clans. None of them had expected Duke Jaynes to lie in wait along the Seventh Princess's retreat...